htaccess passwords and subdirectories

[Fourstar]

While I'm developing my site I've password protected the entire thing by adding to the htaccess file in my html root folder.

AuthType Basic
AuthName "site"
AuthUserFile "path/to/my/password/file"

require valid-user

This works fine but I want to have a public subdirectory accessible to the world without a password. I have been completely unable to find a way to override the Authorisation directive I placed in the root.

Basically what I want is:

/html_root/ - passworded
/html_root/dir1/ - passworded
/html_root/dir2/ - passworded
/html_root/public/ - no password

Does anyone know if it is possible?

 

[shine]

You can do that using the mod access. This module provides access control based on client hostname, IP address etc.

 

[Fourstar]

Thanks for the pointer

I created an htaccess file in my pub directory with the following and it works fine.

Allow from all
Satisfy any

 

[shine]

Glad I could help